Date: 1734
"Hail, holy souls, no more confin'd / To limbs and bones that clog the mind; / Ye have escap'd the snares, and left the chains behind."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Slave to thy self, whilst Lord of all beside, / Surmount thy Weakness, or renounce thy Pride."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734, 1753
"Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind, / And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1702 [1735, 1779, 1779-80, 1790]
"O generous Sympathy, that binds / In Chains unseen the bravest Minds!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1737
"Brave Souls when loos'd from this ignoble Chain / Of Clay, and sent to their own Heav'n again, / From Earth's gross Orb on Virtue's Pinions rise / In Æther wanton, and enjoy the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1739
"Long my imprison'd spirit lay, / Fast bound in sin and nature's night: / Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; / I woke; the dungeon flamed with light; / My chains fell off, my heart was free, / I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind! / From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free, / One only Appetite remained in Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"In vain we forge coercive Chains, to bind / The strongest, noblest Passion of the Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1742
"Not all the chains that tyrants use / Shall bind their souls to vice."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)